On 05/06/2013 16:18, rusi wrote:
On Jun 5, 8:10 pm, Carlos Nepomuceno <carlosnepomuc...@outlook.com>
wrote:
From: nos...@nospam.com
Subject: Source code to identify user through browser?
Date: Wed, 5 Jun 2013 15:08:54 +0200
To: python-l...@python.org
Hello
I was wondering if some Python module were available to identify a
user through their browser, like it's done on the Panopticlick site:
What do you mean by user?
Ha! Nice question. Not in direct answer but here's E.W Dijkstra
defining 'user':
[from http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/transcriptions/EWD06xx/EWD618.html
]
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The computer “user” isn’t a real person of flesh and blood, with
passions and brains. No, he is a mythical figure, and not a very
pleasant one either. A kind of mongrel with money but without taste,
an ugly caricature that is very uninspiring to work for. He is, as a
matter of fact, such an uninspiring idiot that his stupidity alone is
a sufficient explanation for the ugliness of most computer systems.
And oh! Is he uneducated! That is perhaps his most depressing
characteristic. He is equally education-resistant as another equally
mythical bore, “the average programmer”, whose solid stupidity is the
greatest barrier to progress in programming. It is a sad thought that
large sections of computing science are effectively paralyzed by the
narrow-mindedness and other grotesque limitations with which a poor
literature has endowed these influential mythical figures. (Computing
science is not unique in inventing such paralyzing caricatures:
universities all over the world are threatened by the invention of
“the average student”, scientific publishing is severely hampered by
the invention of “the innocent reader” and even “the poor reader”!)
Where does the Bastard Operator From Hell fit in this? :)
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